The Sunday Funnies

I pointed out a beautifully blooming Japanese magnolia tree.  Dorothy quipped, "If they were selling that tree, roots and all, we'd buy it!"

"Mom, elephants are lucky.  Wanna know why?  They can give themselves a shower with their trunks, and if they want to look at their noses, they don't have to hurt their eyes."

Before I dropped Dorothy at school on her first day back, I told her that I was going to ask her a thousand questions when she got home.  For the next two days, whenever there was a quiet moment, Dorothy would prompt me, "Now about those thousand questions..."

Dorothy's thinking is getting very meticulous.  On her first day back to school, I asked her to count the kids in her class and let me know how many kids are in her group, Cohort B.  After a moment she said, "Well, I won't actually know how many kids are in Cohort B if somebody doesn't come to school today."

Brian was sitting in Dorothy's room, reading a very long chapter to Dorothy from an Oz book.  Dorothy was playing with toys on her floor, and, totally in the zone, she stood up and accidentally instructed her dad to, "Hey Google, stop."

"Take a picture of me...did you get my foot in it?"

Helping dad's back after a long day of yardwork

Library book drop

Hittin' the books

Today was the first day back at in-person school (hybrid).

Static

Quarantine pod

The Sunday Funnies

Dorothy hasn't studied telling time in school yet, but she has some flashcards and one card asks questions about time.  She read the question and then ran to her room, and then returned, confused.  "The front of the card says 'It was 2:30 fifteen minutes ago; what time is it now?'  So I checked the time, and the back of the card says '2:45,' but it's 3:30 right now."

I was curious about a standardized test Dorothy took at school, and I asked if it was on the computer or if she used pencil.  "We used pencil in a book," she said.  "Oh, like a workbook?" I asked.  "Yes," she said, "but it didn't have an answer key in the back."

Dorothy and a friend were looking for four-leaf clovers.  Her friend pulled up a handful, including roots, and Dorothy fussed, "You unplugged 'em!"

We were reading a children's book about Anne Frank, and it ends on an uplifting note with a drawing of children everywhere reading copies of her diary.  "They're all reading the same book," Dorothy observed.  "Yes, it's Anne Frank's diary," I told her.  "How are they all reading her diary at the same time?" Dorothy asked.

Azaleas are on the way

School for the Gifted

Dorothy went to school this week to take a standardized test for admittance to the gifted program.  When I picked her up, I asked how the day went.  She complained, "I can't believe that you dressed me in a sweater.  I was so hot all day!"  It was a zip-up cardigan sweater over her uniform.

 

Looking for four-leaf clovers

Morning blogging

Dorothy's pet

Night blogging

The Sunday Funnies

For Valentine's week Dorothy's teacher was talking about hearts, and she asked each child what makes his heart beat fast.  One after another, the kids gave examples of exercise:  running, gymnastics, spinning around.  Dorothy went last.  "Doing XtraMath," she said.  This is her school's timed computer game about math facts.

Dorothy has been making up her own jokes lately:

What's a cat's favorite food?
    A purr-nip

What did the nutcracker say when someone made it laugh?
    You crack me up

I took a "before" picture because we are expecting that front tooth to come out any day now

This style is an attempt to stop hair-chewing

Here's to the Ladies Who Lunch

I received a gift assortment of hot chocolates for my birthday, and we've been doing tastings each night. Pictured here: raspberry hot chocolate

 

The Sunday Funnies

We were watching a YouTube video called "Jelle's Marble Runs."  The set-up is a course for a marble run, filmed and narrated as though you're watching a live sporting event.  There are even stands full of fans (marbles).  It's surprisingly engaging.  At the end of a series of races, the marbles ascended stairs in stop-motion, carrying a tealight Olympic torch, up to the winner's podium.  "They must be so proud," Dorothy observed.

Dorothy likes soft-boiled eggs, and the eggs we usually buy are brown.  We happened to buy white eggs, and when I picked-up an egg and cracked it, Dorothy said, "I thought those eggs were already peeled!"

Dorothy appeared in the living room from bed.  "If I had three people in my heart, Willa would have one-quarter of my heart, you would have one quarter and one-half of one quarter of my heart, and Dad would have one quarter and one-half of one quarter of my heart."

Friend at the neighborhood little library

Blog Takeover

How-to-draw video

Homemade kite this weekend

Happy 1st birthday, Baby Will!

Kal-eye-doscope